Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Spearmint oil
Sweet, green minty-herbal; chewing-gum mint without peppermint's chill.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
- Where it comes from
- USA (Pacific Northwest), India, China
- When you smell it
- Top notes: when you spray it.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds a sweet, playful mint twist to fresh aromatic and citrus accords.
- Rules
- Limited. Mostly carvone; IFRA carvone limits cap its dose
- Also called
- Mentha spicata (native) / M. × gracilis (Scotch)
On the label of 9 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
Le Male ElixirJean Paul Gaultier · printed “Mentha viridis (spearmint) leaf oil”
Hibiscus MahajádMaison Crivelli · printed “Mentha viridis leaf oil”
Le Sel d'IsseyIssey Miyake · printed “Mentha viridis (spearmint) leaf oil”
Y Iced CologneYSL · printed “Mentha viridis leaf oil”
Costa AzzurraTom Ford · printed “Mentha viridis (spearmint) leaf oil”
Liquid LovePenhaligon's · printed “Mentha viridis (spearmint) leaf oil”
Named by the house, not on the label, in 3
